就
就 in English
- (after a suppositional clause) in that case / then / (after a clause of action) as soon as / immediately after / (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely / nothing else but / simply / just / precisely / exactly / only / as little as / as much as / as many as / to approach / to move towards / to undertake / to engage in / (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to / concerning / (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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我回来就解释给你听怎么用。
I'll explain to you how to use it when I come back.
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Alice从上周日起就感冒了。
Alice has had a cold since last Sunday.
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Ben学会了不用火柴就能生火。
Ben learned to make a fire without matches.
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Jane 又胖、又没礼貌、又烟不离手，可是 Ken 却觉得她可爱、动人，所谓「爱情是盲目的」，大概就是这个意思了吧。
Jane is fat and rude, and smokes too much. However, Ken thinks she's lovely and charming. That's why they say love is blind.
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Kent生来就是个领导人。
Kent is a born leader.
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一个世纪就是一百年。
A century is one hundred years.
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一份我们不喜欢的工作就是。。。一份工作。
A job that you don't love is... a job.